On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Alex Bobotek wrote: > Steve, > > Is a more detailed statement of this ISP's policy and rationale > available? This might have some bearing on the question of whether MARF > or other action is appropriate.
The ISP has made no statement of what their policy or rationale is. I could speculate, but that probably wouldn't be helpful. Sending email to their abuse@ alias leads to a response that starts with "Thank you for your email, but this address now only accepts messages in Abuse Reporting Format." - that's the only information I have about them right now. > Some formal or informal chat or action > on best MARF practices in MAAWG is also be a possibility. That too, yes. I was more thinking along the lines of "us" being clear that ARF is not intended as a replacement for manual reports, rather a useful additional format primarily for machine-to-machine communication. Cheers, Steve > > Regards, > > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Steve Atkins > Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:56 AM > To: Message Abuse Report Format working group > Subject: [marf] Misuse of ARF by spam-friendly ISPs > > A major US ISP has started using the existence of ARF as an excuse to > reject all spam complaints to their abuse@ alias, instead saying that > they refuse to accept any reports of abuse in any format other than ARF > - meaning that typical users have no way to report the (large amounts > of) abusive mail they emit. > > It strikes me that using ARF as a scapegoat for antisocial behaviour of > this sort is not going to do ARF's reputation much good, especially if > other abuse-friendly ISPs pick up on the idea. > > Is there anything "we" can do about it, such as putting a policy > statement somewhere? Should we? > > Cheers, > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > marf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/marf _______________________________________________ marf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/marf
